Let's be honest here. There's a reason all the old guys who came out of jail, or even Junior, couldn't respect him. He was a punk. He ran his crew with no discipline. For example, when Chrissy was a nothing, an errand boy, back in '95, he was allowed to interrupt two made guys talking (Tony and Puss) about Family business. That's against the code. He lets Chris and Brendan, two associates, off lightly when they hijack Junior's truck - a high level Captain. This same act almost got Junior killed by Jackie back in '95.

When Richie took down Beansie (the first time), Beansie was right. The guy had a right to earn. What does Tony do? Instead of having a sitdown and taxing Richie for not coming to him first, and telling Beansie to kick up to Richie, he instead comes down hard on Richie, and doesn't give him anything. He sides with a civilian over an established wiseguy, a skipper.

He lets Davey Scatino walk scott free from Richie, again siding with a civilian, when Richie is in the right - Davey already owes Richie money, and he's playing in the Executive Game?

He treats Feech with contempt and takes a heavy handed approach to a guy who was a living legend.

He bumps Christopher, newly made, over Patsy, a well established made guy.

He bumps Gigi, a soldier in his crew, up to Capo of the Aprile crew, even though Ralph is the more qualified, better earning guy and has the respect of the Aprile soldiers - purely out of dislike for Ralph.

He coddles Christopher even after Christopher is revealed to be a drug addict, who openly insults Silvio, and Tony to their faces at the intervention. He spares Chris when Chris openly threatens Tony's life and pulls a gun on him, in the middle of Sil's club no less. He again spares Chris when it's discovered he's been living with a rat for at least a year and may or may not have shared damning things with her.

Let's be honest here. For as interesting as Tony was as a protagonist, in Mafia terms, he was a Punk. A disgrace. He only made it as far as he did because of his father, and because no one else wanted to be Boss.


Last edited by JackieAprile; 06/04/17 03:43 PM.